Author: Louis Kahn

Quotes

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

- Louis Kahn

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

- Louis Kahn

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

- Louis Kahn

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

- Louis Kahn

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

- Louis Kahn

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

- Louis Kahn

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